The last half-dozen of my reviews for the Scotsman this year are now online. There’s no single link to reviews by critic on their website so I thought I’ve compiled them here.
You can also read earlier Scotsman reviews here, and more here, and a non-Scotsman round-up here.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Tomás Ford: Craptacular
Ford’s off-the-rails style might take you by surprise. But let him do his thing and you realise it all comes from a place of love. Resistance is a waste of time anyway. Get weird. And have fun.
Read the full Scotsman review here.
Carla Lippis – Cast a Dark Shadow
From the emotional delivery to the vocal technique to the musical ambition, it’s all turned up to 11, like a gathering storm or a stampede approaching from the horizon.
Read the full Scotsman review here.
Ben Hart: Belief?
As a spectacle of enchantment, Belief? offers a crescendo of coups that leave you seriously stumped for a rational explanation.
Read the full Scotsman review here.
ALSO WORTH CATCHING:
Elsie Diamond: The Sensible Undresser
In this evocative, amusing and insightful burlesque Bildungsroman, performer Elsie Diamond takes us through her career in cabaret – or rather that of her alter ego, Winnie Sparkletits.
Read the Full Scotsman review here.
Sweatshop
A richly stocked line-up of performers offers plenty to delight but as a show, there’s a sense of a potentially powerful machine not firing on all cylinders.
Read the full Scotsman review here.
Phil Dunning: The House of Pigs
Campy, knowing, wild-eyed and surreal character comedy, buoyed by ceaseless energy, sinuous physicality, tremulous vocal renditions and a deep attachment to the bathetically grotesque.
Read the full Scotsman review here.
And that’s it from me for this year’s Fringe.
WANT MORE?
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My first batch of Scotsman reviews plus other recommendations
My second batch of Scotsman reviews
In praise of the weird: Panti Bliss’s Edinburgh Fringe 2017 welcome address
